David Bradley (plowman), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American pioneer
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About David Bradley (plowman)
- David Bradley (November 8, 1811 – February 19, 1899) was a "Pioneer Plowman". David Bradley was born in Groton, New York on November 8, 1811.
- After working with his brother, C.
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- Bradley, for several years in Syracuse, he relocated to Chicago in 1835.
- Initially he was in the employ of Jones, King & Co.
- and helped to build the first foundry in Chicago, known as the "Chicago Furnace". From the late 1830s until the 1850s David Bradley farmed in Lake County, Illinois, made bricks, and later farm machinery, in Racine, Wisconsin, and was a lumberman in Michigan.
- In 1854, he returned to Chicago.
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